Early Photography in Colonial Australia
$36.65
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
13 October 2025
Summary
Capturing a Colony: Photography’s Early Days in Australia
Early Photography in Colonial Australia explores the origins of the photographic culture that continues to shape how we see the world.
From its mid-nineteenth-century beginnings photography was more than just a new technology – it was deeply implicated in the colonial project. The invention of photographic technology coincided with the rise of imperial control across the Pacific, and many of its raw materials…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780522879520 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0522879527 |
| Author: | Elisa deCourcy |
| Publisher: | Melbourne University Press |
| Imprint: | The Miegunyah Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 13 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 265g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm |
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Critics Review
“Elisa deCourcy has given us the most subtle and erudite history of colonial photography yet. For the first time First Nations perspectives are centred within the larger story of photography in Australia.” - Professor Jane Lydon, University of Western Australia
“This is a book from which we could all learn much.” - Professor Geoffrey Batchen, University of Oxford
“This is a book about much more than photography, but the photographs themselves have an astonishing presence and power.” - Professor Emerita Helen Ennis, Australian National University
“An important contribution to rethinking the early history of photography and its imbrication in the practices and history of colonial dispossession.” - Professor Steve Edwards, The Courtauld Institute of Art
About The Author
Elisa deCourcy
Elisa deCourcy is a writer and curator living and working on Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country. Between 2020 and 2023 she was an Australian Research Council DECRA fellow in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at the Australian National University. DeCourcy has written on photography and colonial art for the National Portrait Gallery, London; Musée du Quai Branly, Paris and the National Gallery of Victoria, as well as a range of national and international scholarly journals.
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